Document, Organise and Evaluate an ongoing investigation into type and typography using the principles, practices and examples introduced during the studio workshops as a starting point. You should aim to develop an increasingly individual resource type, letterforms, typography and texts relating to the creative, cultural and technical use of type in contemporary graphic design and broader visual culture. You should use the following themes as initial approaches to collect, categorise and compare type form a range of sources:
Production Methods - Stone, Sable, Bone , Wood, Lead, Silicon/digital, Hand Rendered, Stencil, Block Print
Anatomy - Line/Stroke weight, Serif, Curve/Apex, Terminals, Uppercase/Lowercase, Bold, Italic, Ascenders/Descenders,
Identity - Name, Designer, Historical, Chronological, Cultural, Humanist, Modern, Traditional, Context, Function
Character - delicate, contrats, Sophisticated, Playful, Childlike, Fun, Exciting, Minimal, Formal, Geometric, Balanced, Simple, Decorative, Feminine, Corporate, Industrial.
It essential that you see these as convenient starting points for your ongoing investigation. You should keep an ongoing record of your progress on your Studio Practice blog and label it with the module code, task number and a separate label 'Type Journal".
Considerations
Consider how you will source and record a range of examples websites, font foundries text books, magazines, photocopy, photography.
You will find that you will quickly identify a range of other possible lines of investigation and find new ways of organising your findings. If you identify other themes , make sure you define what they are and add them to the list above.
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